Alleged certificate forgery: Enugu LP lines up 36 witnesses against Mbah

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Enugu State, Mr Chijioke Edeoga, on Friday, told the election petition tribunal sitting in Enugu that he would call 36 witnesses to testify against Governor Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party to prove his alleged certificate forgery.

Mbah, who was declared winner of the March 18 governorship election in Enugu State by the Independent National Electoral Commission is facing the case over the alleged forgery of the National Youths Service Corps discharge certificate he presented to the electoral umpire.

Edeoga is praying the tribunal to disqualify Mba over the alleged certificate forgery.

During the resumed sitting of the tribunal on Friday, the petitioners through their counsel Mr M. J. Numa, told the panel that they intended to call 28 witnesses in a whole within their control and eight subpoenaed witnesses.

Numa further told the tribunal led by Justice K. M Akano that they would require a period of five weeks to call the witnesses and had agreed that the witnesses within their control would need 15 minutes for cross-examination.

Responding, counsel for Mbah and the PDP, Mr Wole Olanikpekun, and Mr Tochukwu Maduka, respectively, dismissed the argument on the grounds that the FCT High Court had resolved the issue of alleged certificate forgery as there was a leave of appeal and that section 177 and 182 of the constitution had settled the matter. Punch